Lots of Nicole Kidman today! Did you know that Nicole has Twihard-like fan girls? True story. And they think Nicole walks on water and they yell at me when I don’t acknowledge her as a saint on earth. Personally, I thought I was being very nice and generous to Nicole in my earlier post, but the fan girls are really upset. Well, those fan girls should double-up on their big-girl panties, because this post might be slightly “harsher”.

These are pics of Nicole at last night’s premiere (also described as a “gala” for some reason) of The Paperboy in NYC. Nicole wore this red L’Wren Scott. I love L’Wren. Truly. She’s like the anti-Georgina Chapman. But this dress isn’t the best, and I’m not sure I like it on Nicole at all. I’m not one of those “gingers should never wear red” people. Some gingers can pull it off. But I don’t think Nicole is pulling this off, and part of the reason is that the fabric is just kind of… I don’t know, cheap-looking? Maybe I would feel differently if I saw this on a brunette. I might, quite honestly. Also: Nicole’s bolt-ons look incredibly high and ridiculous in this dress.

In other Nicole news, her Paperboy director, Lee Daniels, says that Nicole flat-out refused to say the n-word:

Nicole Kidman went outside of her comfort zone to play a sexy role in The Paperboy, but there was one thing she wasn’t willing to do.

“I asked her to use the ‘N’ word,” director Lee Daniels revealed Wednesday during a press conference for the film. “I could feel the racial tension there in the town. She said, ‘I won’t do it.’ I told my producer, ‘She won’t do it!’ Then he mapped it out — ‘Lee, day one she is on a washing machine, day two she is urinating on Zac Efron, day three she’s having telepathic sex . . . I think you can forgive her.”

Kidman, 45, plays a trashy, bleach-blonde woman in the dark, twisted film set in the 1960s. The Paperboy stars Efron and Matthew McConaughey as two brothers investigating the case of a death row inmate played by John Cusack, who Kidman’s character is obsessed with marrying.

“I just didn’t feel it was right for the character,” the actress explained of why she wouldn’t say the word. “I have a son [Connor Cruise] who is African American. I just didn’t feel like it was right. What I try to do as an actor is fulfill a director’s vision. I have opinions, but at the same time I’m not there to stop him from anything. I’ve really tried to do that in every film. I never want to pull them off their vision.”

Kidman is mother to adopted children Isabella, 19, and Connor, 17, with ex-husband Tom Cruise, and daughters Sunday Rose, 4, and Faith Margaret, 21 months, with husband Keith Urban. But the mother of four does want to take on more challenging roles in the future.

“I just wanted to push myself to do something I haven’t done before. I want to feel challenged, ripped open, to bring discomfort to myself and it’s really hard to find those roles and people who will do it with you,” she said. “But at this point in my life I don’t want to be scared. I’m going to push through.”

I don’t think Nicole should have to feel like she needs to apologize or hedge for refusing to say the n-word. She didn’t think it was right for the character, and she probably didn’t want to say it ever, in general. Which is fine. I’m glad Lee Daniels didn’t push for it, and I’m glad Nicole drew a line somewhere. It’s funny that her line in the sand was “no n-word” and not “spontaneous orgasm upon seeing John Cusack” or “peeing on Zac Efron”.

I feel the need to go watch Practical Magic and sigh deeply for the former beauty that was Nicole Kidman’s face.
As for the dress, I can’t picture anyone who would pull that off. I don’t feel she’s managing it any worse than anyone else. She at least has the requisite long & thin body type.

that’s true but the dress is beautiful and not cheap looking at all. think of how pretty this pick would have been for christina aguellaria (sp) accepting that hunger award if she still refused to wear a suit.

I resent this idea that as women get older they must chop off their hair…it’s very symbolic of the way that we prize youth to such an extent that we deny women the right to still be feminine or womanly after a certain age. As a society, we play into this idea that women should be stripped of the woman-ness. The idea makes me sick. I personally will have gorgeous long red hair as long as I can, and then gorgeous long white hair. The idea that a woman is too old to have long hair once she reaches her 40s is both completely arbitrary and crazy.

I hear you themummy… I’ll likely be rocking the long hair for the rest of my life too. Had short hair as a small kid, hated it, and I’ve kept it long ever since. My Mom is 70 now and her hair reaches her waist – she wears it up for the most part but it looks fab when it’s down… not at all “inappropriate”.

“it’s very symbolic of the way that we prize youth to such an extent that we deny women the right to still be feminine or womanly after a certain age. As a society, we play into this idea that women should be stripped of the woman-ness. The idea makes me sick.”

Well said. I couldn’t agree more. When I read the comment above I was like, “WTF?”

There is no age limit to long hair as long as it looks good. My cousin, who is 56, wears it like Maria Callas, a well-made bun (she actually looks like Maria Callas), and a friend’s mother has gorgeous long gray hair and she is 63.

I don’t usually care about the height difference so much but WHAT IS killing me is that given the difference in their height AND with those heels on her waist is as high up as his mid-chest What’s up with that?

Two other things: Did see get a boob job? And that dress is ugly to me. Sometimes I think she puts out a fashion call for the ugliest dresses currently being designed and sold.

I would have a “spontaneous orgasm upon seeing John Cusack”! Heck, that’s not acting- it’s just a natural response of a woman’s body. The man could be 104 and I’d still hit it. He’s prolly the only reason I’ll see this!

It really is just the hair that’s a problem. It’s got a real budget look to the dye job that is hard to explain when she’s clearly spending a fortune on it. Her natural color is so stunning that I just don’t get why she doesn’t stick with it.

Perhaps it’s not all Botox. A few extra pounds plumps up facial wrinkles. Her hair is lovely. No one is going to judge the length of my hair at whatever age I am, even if I’m pushing a walker and it keeps getting caught in the wheels!